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18,400 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: How to Speak Dolphin in Three Easy Lessons (The Zack Files #11) | [
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18,401 | 0 | When I was asked to write this story, I was stuck until a fellow writer suggested I look at it from the monsters' point of view - it was their big holiday. So I wrote this fun take on monsters getting their haunted house ready for trick-or-treaters and throwing a Halloween night party.Natasha Wing still gets dressed up and goes out for Halloween. She lives in Colorado.; Title: The Night Before Halloween | [
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18,402 | 2 | Gr. 1. The excitement of learning to read is captured with minimal text, but all sorts of enthusiasm. In an expansive two-page spread set at a lunch counter, a little girl shows her mother a milk carton and says, "I can read. Milk." She can also read the stop sign. As the story progresses, she knows her ABCs and draws readers into the experiences as she wonders aloud, "What starts with C ?" and asks them to find items in her messy room that begin with various letters. Soon the girl is reading along with her father and then reads a whole book by herself. The delightful watercolor-and-ink artwork bursts out of the borders and matches the gusto of the text. New readers will see themselves in this entry to the All Aboard Reading series. Ilene CooperCopyright American Library Association. All rights reservedSusan Hood lives in Southport, CT.; Title: Look! I Can Read! (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,403 | 15 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?In the first of these easy readers, Bugsy is always tormenting and squashing insects until a menacing gold bug with lightning bolts on its wings gets revenge and a promise of good future behavior from the boy. In the second offering, Jane meets Molly and discovers that her new friend's mother is a mermaid. Despite the series name, neither book is likely to cause anyone to shriek. Both titles satisfy the usual requirements of beginning readers with straightforward story lines, short sentences, low readability levels, and illustrations that supply context clues. However, the stories are only average fare.?Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, IDCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Mermaid Island (Eek - Stories to Make You Shriek) | [
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18,404 | 6 | Edward Miller has written and illustrated many books for children, including The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for Monsters & Kids!He is the creator of many Sticker Stories, including A to Z Aliens, Rockets, and Speed Machines. Miller lives in New York City.; Title: Airplanes (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,405 | 0 | Grade 1-3-This beginning reader opens with a brief lineup of gods and goddesses including Horus, Re, Thoth, Montu, Osiris, Isis, and Anubis and then goes into an account of the Egyptians' fascination with death and the afterlife. Readers find out why pyramids and mummies were so important, and how bodies were prepared for their trip to the Underworld. The book closes with a quick look at modern Egyptians and their beliefs. The watercolor illustrations have decorative borders, hieroglyphs, and line drawings of people and gods. Much of the book is devoted to the exploration of death customs and belief systems; the gods and goddesses play a minor part, rendering the title slightly misleading. Also, some of the vocabulary may be difficult for new readers. Still, the information is good and easy enough to satisfy budding interests.Angela J. Reynolds, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Aloha, OR Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) | [
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18,406 | 2 | Watty Piper is the pseudonym of Arnold Munk, author behind the classic retelling of The Little Engine That Could and cofounder of Platt & Munk Publishers (now part of Grosset & Dunlap.) Munk’s retelling of the beloved children’s tale has sold millions of copies since its 1930 publication and inspired generations to believe they can.; Title: The Little Engine That Could Helps Out | [
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18,407 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 19: the Boy Who Cried Bigfoot (The Zack Files) | [
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18,408 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 10: Bozo the Clone (The Zack Files) | [
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18,409 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 18: How I Fixed the Year 1000 Problem (The Zack Files) | [
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18,410 | 2 | Gail Herman has written many books for Penguin Young Readers, includingFlower GirlandLucky Goes to School.; Title: Otto the Cat (All Aboard Picture Reader) | [
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18,411 | 0 | Gr. 1-2. This colorful volume from the All Aboard Reading Series uses relatively simple words to discuss butterflies. The text explains butterflies physical kinship with other insects and presents the life cycle of a butterfly as well as camouflage, migration, and the differences between butterflies and moths. The illustrations, which combine elements of painting and cut-paper collage, create various effects, from a landscape conveying levels of depth to a large-scale butterfly isolated against a white background. Though the information presented is quite limited, librarians may want to have this on hand for beginning readers who prefer nonfiction. Carolyn PhelanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reservedEmily Neye is a childrens book author and a landscape designer. She studied English at Amherst College and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Emily loves learning about the natural world and sharing her passion with others, through both her writing and her work on urban gardens and parks. Emily lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.; Title: Butterflies (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,412 | 0 | In 1997, dinosaur hunters found something amazing -- a valley full of dinosaur eggs! What kind of dinosaurs laid them? Why didn't the babies hatch? Read this book and find out!Jennifer Dussling lives in Highland Park, NY.; Title: Dinosaur Eggs (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,413 | 0 | Tomie dePaola(www.tomie.com) is the acclaimed author and/or illustrator of more than 250 books for children. His books range from autobiographical stories to retellings of folktales and legends to original tales, such as the Strega Nona books. He lives in New London, New Hampshire.; Title: Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose Favorites (Reading Railroad) | [
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18,414 | 0 | The giant squid is one of the world's great mysteries. It lives way down deep in the ocean, far from human eyes. But last year fishermen found one -- it was dead, but it was whole! Now it is at the American Museum of Natural History. What have scientists learned from this amazing creature? Read and find out!Jennifer Dussling lives in Highland Park, NY.; Title: Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (All Aboard Science Reader: Station Level 3) | [
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18,415 | 0 | Grade 2-4-- Fritz brings the excitement of history to newly independent readers. They will easily relate to teenaged George having to obey his mother, but may not understand her continual meddling and kvetching once her son be- comes an adult. Using factual data and funny incidents, the author humorously depicts Mary Ball Washington as a manipulative and stubborn worrywart. The numerous, half- and full-page, pencil-and-watercolor illustrations are reminiscent of Margot Tomes's work; they complement the text and extend the humor. However, the paintings lack the visual crispness associated with Fritz's earlier biographies illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman and others. Still, George Washington's Mother gives youngsters an enjoyable introduction to our nation's first president from a unique perspective. --Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, IDCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.Jean Fritz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Homesick, is best known for her engaging and enlightening nonfiction for young readers, including What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, and Shh! We're Writing the Constitution. She was honored with the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature by the New York State Library Association, and won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature.; Title: George Washington's Mother (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,416 | 13 | Joyce Milton has written several books for Penguin Young Readers, includingBatsandPocahontas: An American Princess.; Title: Hieroglyphs | [
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18,417 | 13 | Gr. 1^-2. In the upcoming ballet performance of Night Sky, Nina and the other girls will be stars, dancing around Eric, who plays the moon. Nina happily tells her best friend Ann about her part in the show, then is taken aback to hear Ann passing on the news that Nina will be the star, rather than a star. Reluctant to speak up at once, Nina is so troubled by the thought of discovery that she feigns a sore leg to avoid performance. Nina sets Ann straight before the show, where the young dancer makes "a pretty good star." Refreshingly childlike in the scale of Nina's problem and the emotional and practical results of its resolution, this short story focuses on feelings that beginning readers will recognize. O'Connor writes with simplicity and directness, but without sounding simplistic. DiSalvo-Ryan's sensitive drawings with watercolor washes enhance the book's appeal. Carolyn Phelan; Title: Nina, nina, star ballerina (All Aboard Reading, Level 1) | [
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18,418 | 0 | Mary Batten is an award-winning science writer whose previous books, Discovery By Chance, The Tropical Forest, and Nature's Tricksters, were written for the juvenile market. Her magazine credits include Cosmopolitan, Science Digest, and International Wildlife. She has written scripts for fifty television films, the producers of which include Time-Life Films, Children's Television Workshop, National Geographic, and Walt Disney Educational Film Division. She lives in Virginia.; Title: Baby Wolf (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,420 | 6 | Winky Adam is a childrens book illustrator. Her art can be seen in more than 30 activity and coloring books, including Sticker Stories: Hooray for Halloween! and Wee Sing and Learn My Body.; Title: Sticker Stories: Hooray for Halloween! | [
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18,421 | 1 | Don Freeman was born in San Diego, California, in 1908. At an early age, he received a trumpet as a gift from his father. He practiced obsessively and eventually joined a California dance band. After graduating from high school, he ventured to New York City to study art under the tutelage of Joan Sloan and Harry Wickey at the Art Students' League. He managed to support himself throughout his schooling by playing his trumpet evenings, in nightclubs and at weddings.Gradually, he eased into making a living sketching impressions of Broadway shows for The New York Times and The Herald Tribune. This shift was helped along, in no small part, by a rather heartbreaking incident: he lost his trumpet. One evening, he was so engrossed in sketching people on the subway, he simply forgot it was sitting on the seat beside him. This new career turned out to be a near-perfect fit for Don, though, as he had always loved the theater.He was introduced to the world of childrens literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books. Soon after, he began to write and illustrate his own books, a career he settled into comfortably and happily. Through his writing, he was able to create his own theater: "I love the flow of turning the pages, the suspense of what's next. Ideas just come at me and after me. It's all so natural. I work all the time, long into the night, and it's such a pleasure. I don't know when the time ends. I've never been happier in my life!"Don died in 1978, after a long and successful career. He created many beloved characters in his lifetime, perhaps the most beloved among them a stuffed, overall-wearing bear named Corduroy.Don Freeman was the author and illustrator of many popular books for children, including Corduroy, A Pocket for Corduroy, and the Caldecott Honor Book Fly High, Fly Low.; Title: Corduroy's Easter Party | [
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18,422 | 2 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 21: Don't Count on Dracula (The Zack Files) | [
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18,423 | 2 | Joyce Milton has written several books for Penguin Young Readers, includingBatsandPocahontas: An American Princess.; Title: Pocahontas: An American Princess (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) | [
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18,424 | 13 | Ruth Heller(1923-2004) began her career designing wrapping paper, cocktail napkins, greeting cards, and coloring books. Her first book,Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, about egg-laying animals, was published in 1981. It was so successful that the sequel, Animals Born Alive And Well(1982), quickly followed. In 1983 and 1984, her third and fourth titles,The Reason for a FlowerandPlants That Never Ever Bloomwere published. Heller's next collection of books became a five-volume series on parts of speech, followed by her highly successful coloring book series, Designs for Coloring.; Title: Designs for Coloring: Prisms | [
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18,426 | 0 | Don Freeman was born in San Diego, California, in 1908. At an early age, he received a trumpet as a gift from his father. He practiced obsessively and eventually joined a California dance band. After graduating from high school, he ventured to New York City to study art under the tutelage of Joan Sloan and Harry Wickey at the Art Students' League. He managed to support himself throughout his schooling by playing his trumpet evenings, in nightclubs and at weddings.Gradually, he eased into making a living sketching impressions of Broadway shows for The New York Times and The Herald Tribune. This shift was helped along, in no small part, by a rather heartbreaking incident: he lost his trumpet. One evening, he was so engrossed in sketching people on the subway, he simply forgot it was sitting on the seat beside him. This new career turned out to be a near-perfect fit for Don, though, as he had always loved the theater.He was introduced to the world of childrens literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books. Soon after, he began to write and illustrate his own books, a career he settled into comfortably and happily. Through his writing, he was able to create his own theater: "I love the flow of turning the pages, the suspense of what's next. Ideas just come at me and after me. It's all so natural. I work all the time, long into the night, and it's such a pleasure. I don't know when the time ends. I've never been happier in my life!"Don died in 1978, after a long and successful career. He created many beloved characters in his lifetime, perhaps the most beloved among them a stuffed, overall-wearing bear named Corduroy.Don Freeman was the author and illustrator of many popular books for children, including Corduroy, A Pocket for Corduroy, and the Caldecott Honor Book Fly High, Fly Low.; Title: Corduroy's Christmas Surprise | [
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18,427 | 0 | Wendy Cheyette Lewison lives in Larchmont, NY.; Title: The Big Snowball (All Aboard Picture Reader) | [
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18,428 | 0 | Dana Regan has written several books for young children.; Title: Monkey See, Monkey Do (Penguin Young Readers, Level 1) | [
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18,429 | 0 | Gr 1-3-Frantz takes on the daunting task of explaining the importance of totem poles to beginning readers. She is most successful when she describes how the poles are made and how they were raised traditionally. To her credit, she shows both historical and contemporary settings. Her description of the place of totem poles in Haida culture is necessarily oversimplified, and her attempt to cover everything in so few pages of limited-vocabulary text results in some sketchy information. She begins with the heading "The Pacific Northwest, 1750," which says very little to first and second graders. She describes a pole-raising event and writes that "People in costumes are dancing," but the woodcut illustrations show no one in costume or dancing until several pages later. Eitzen's art is striking but stylized so it is hard to hold it to accuracy. However, a double-page map that shows a segment of the Canadian-Alaskan coast with an inset that features an outline of northern North America is not going to serve the intended audience well. With no labels on these maps, it will be the rare child who will be able to figure out what is being depicted. Those who want to explore Northwest-coast cultures with a young audience may want to investigate adapting the activities in Nan McNutt's The Bentwood Box and The Button Blanket (both Sasquatch, 1997).Sue Sherif, Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library, AKCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Totem Poles (All Aboard Reading) | [
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18,430 | 1 | Grosset & Dunlap creates high-quality books for young readers of any level. Focused on books for ages 012, Grosset offers a wide range of original fiction series, nonfiction titles, leveled readers, and licensed tie-ins to captivate every reader.; Title: Mermaid World (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,431 | 2 | In Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever! based on Don Freeman's popular character, illus. by Lisa McCue, the fellow gets ready for a Halloween party. His inventive use of a tablecloth earns him costume kudos and extra treats.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Don Freeman (19081978) was the author and illustrator of many popular books for children, includingCorduroy,A Pocket for Corduroy, and the Caldecott Honor BookFly High, Fly Low. During his career as an artist, sketching impressions of Broadway shows for the New York Times and The Herald Tribune, he was introduced to the world of childrens literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books. Soon after, he began to write and illustrate his own books, a career he settled into comfortably and happily. Through his writing, he was able to create his own theater: "I love the flow of turning the pages, the suspense of what's next. Ideas just come at me and after me. It's all so natural. I work all the time, long into the night, and it's such a pleasure. I don't know when the time ends. I've never been happier in my life!" He created many beloved characters in his lifetime, perhaps the most beloved among them a stuffed, overall-wearing bear named Corduroy. In the past 30 years, Lisa McCue has illustrated more than 175 books for children.Her artwork also appears on fabrics, greeting cards, gift tins, wrapping papers, home dcor, and clothing. When she isnt drawing, she can be found on the water racing her sailboat, or in the mountains skiing. She loves to read, sew, and bead andis involved in fundraising for ALS. McCue was born in Brooklyn, NY, and now lives in Annapolis, Maryland.; Title: Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever! | [
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18,432 | 2 | Grade 3-5-Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in Ohio. Her life story is told here-from her fatherless childhood through her marriage to Frank Butler and glory days traveling with Buffalo Bill's show to her death, 18 days before her husband's, in 1926. "Little Sure Shot," as she was nicknamed by Sitting Bull, truly had a one-of-a-kind life. She raised herself up from a poor, abused baby-sitter to a sharpshooting show woman who enchanted Queen Victoria out of her post-Albert funk, no less. However, while her biography is presented in full here, the prose is rather dry and uninviting. The black-and-white cartoons that pad the book are no better. Although two time lines are appended, there is no index. Sue Macy's Bull's-Eye (National Geographic, 2001) is a wonderful photobiography of Oakley that will be far more helpful for reports and is more enjoyable reading.Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Stephanie Spinner is a full-time writer of children's books.; Title: Who Was Annie Oakley? | [
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18,433 | 0 | Roberta Edwards lives in New York, New York. Ken Call lives in Northbrook, Illinois.; Title: Space Kid (All Aboard Picture Reader) | [
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18,434 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Elvis, the Turnip, and Me (The Zack Files #14) | [
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18,435 | 0 | By a lake in Florida, a baby alligator hatches from her egg. She wiggles down to the water. Her first day has begun. What dangers and adventures lie ahead? Find out in this book you can read by yourself!Ginjer L. Clarke has written many books for Penguin Young Readers, includingBaby Otter,Freak Out!, andWatch Out!; Title: Baby Alligator (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,436 | 6 | Nancy Sippel Carpenter is an author and an illustrator of children's books. Her credits includeThe Girls;Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains; M IS FOR MISCHIEF: An A to Z of Naughty Children; and 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore.; Title: The Land of Unicorns (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,437 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids (The Zack Files, No. 16) | [
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18,438 | 2 | I couldn't wait to go to Kindergarten. The new yellow pencils, freshly sharpened. New clothes. A cute haircut. And all those new kids to meet!; Title: The Night Before Kindergarten | [
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18,439 | 2 | Gr 3-5-"Portugese explorers named this sea `The Sea of Grapes' when they saw the fields of seaweed full of golden global shapes." These globes and leaves of seaweed fill several blue expanses in this poetic introduction to the Sargasso Sea, best known to children for that segment of it called the Bermuda Triangle. Heller's rhythmic, rhyming commentary on the history, geography, and animals of this "sea within an ocean" emphasizes scary aspects. Sea creatures show their terrible teeth and swallow ships and humans in the more dramatic views. Double-page spreads feature gold or tan fierce fish that blend with the seaweed and others of the black inky ocean bottom with fish outlined in white and shaded in rusty pastels. From fanciful views of brightly colored sailing vessels to a final cartoon view of a gentleman savoring a plate of eels, this is a quick pass over sunken ships, repeated masses of seaweed, and monstrous and more benign animals. There's only the barest reference to the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes, and no concluding notes are offered to expand the minimal information. Broadly sketched maps on the first and last pages show the location of the Sargasso Sea and the Bermuda Triangle. A few references will be vague for children, but some readers will enjoy the innuendoes of monsters and mystery.-Margaret Bush, Simmons College, BostonCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.After receiving a fine arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and completing two years of graduate work in design at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Ruth Heller (1923-2004) began her career designing wrapping paper, cocktail napkins, greeting cards, and coloring books. After five years of rejection and one complete revision, Heller's first book,Chickens Aren't the Only Ones, about egg-laying animals, was published in 1981. It was so successful that the sequel, and second book to be published,Animals Born Alive And Well(1982), about mammals, quickly followed. In 1983 and 1984, her third and fourth titles,The Reason For A Flower(about plants that have seeds and flowers) andPlants That Never Ever Bloom(about plants that do not) were published.She then began work on a collection of six books, theHow To Hideseries on camouflage and the magic of this phenomenon in nature, which covered the entire animal kingdom -- insects, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and sea creatures. The next collection of books became a five-volume series on parts of speech:A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns; Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs; Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives; Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns;andUp, Up and Away: A Book About Adverbs. She also wrote and illustrated the unique and fascinating bookColor, a charming and instructive guide to how art goes through the four color printing process.Among the notable people who have had an influence on Heller's writing have been: Ogden Nash, Gilbert and Sullivan, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and Dr. Seuss. Heller says of her work, "All my books are nonfiction picture books in rhyme. I find writing in rhyme enjoyable and challenging, and I think it is an easy way for children to learn new facts and acquire a sophisticated vocabulary. Children are not intimidated by big words. I try to make my writing succinct and allow the illustrations to convey as much information as possible."; Title: A Sea within a Sea: Secrets of the Sargasso | [
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18,440 | 13 | Sylvia Walker is an author and illustrator of books for young readers. She graduated with a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. She is the author and illustrator of Dress for School and Pretty Ballerinas, and has illustrated many more books for other authors.; Title: Pretty Ballerinas (Sticker Styles) | [
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18,441 | 0 | Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso are a dynamic writing duo who have written several books for Penguin Young Readers.; Title: Ponies (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,442 | 15 | Edward Miller has written and illustrated many books for children, including The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for Monsters & Kids! He is the creator of many Sticker Stories, including A to Z Aliens, Rockets, and Speed Machines. Miller lives in New York City.; Title: Rockets (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,443 | 0 | For Christian families that want to weave inspirational messages into their children's day-to-day lives, Marjorie Ainsborough Decker's time-tested approach will be very appealing. For more than 20 years, Decker's Christian Mother Goose books (Rock-A-Bye Bible, Bless My Little Friends, etc.) have tenderly welcomed young readers to the Christian way. Combining the whimsy and enduring appeal of traditional Mother Goose rhymes with stirring words about Jesus, the Bible, and God's love, Decker portrays a kinder, gentler world. Here, in an extra-large volume, are adapted versions of 53 favorite classics, from "Old Mother Hubbard" to "Twinkle Twinkle" to "Rub-A-Dub-Dub." Under Decker's hand, "Three Blind Mice" becomes "Three Kind Mice":reS-K-Like all traditional literature, there are various versions of Mother Goose rhymes; occasionally they have been used for didactic purposes. In this collection of 53 rhymes, the didacticism is blatant, unimaginative, and condescending. Here's an example: "There was an old woman/Who lived in a shoe./She had so many children,/And loved them all, too./She said, `Thank you,/Lord Jesus,/For sending them bread,'/Then kissed them all gladly/And sent them to bed." The colorful illustrations are whimsical and often more lighthearted than the rhymes they accompany. Perhaps some Christian Sunday schools would want this, but not many Mother Goose fans.Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, MECopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: The Christian Mother Goose Book of Nursery Rhymes | [
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18,444 | 2 | Jean Hirashima has illustrated many children's books, including several Hello Kitty books. She lives in New York City.; Title: Mix 'n' Match Faces (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,446 | 2 | "(With) off-the-wall humor, (THE ZACK FILES) neatly poke fun at the conventions of popular horror series." -- School Library JournalDan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 17: Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager (The Zack Files) | [
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18,447 | 0 | Gr 1-3-An easy-reader look at those most popular, if fearsome, fish. Eye-catching illustrations accompany Clarke's text, which includes basic facts on shark physiology and reproduction (no mention of mating), and their wide variety of size, shape, and coloration (speaking of which, Petruccio's lemon shark is brilliantly yellow, and his pink goblin shark, determinedly pink). Oversimplification creeps in with such generalizations as "And sharks love to eat seals" that should be modified by the word "some," as whale sharks are plankton grazers and tiny lantern sharks would not have a prayer of preying on a swiftly swimming seal. However, the topic is surefire, and this book, which is simpler than Allan Fowler's The Best Way to See a Shark (Children's, 1995) or Melvin Berger's Chomp! (Scholastic, 2001), and on about the same level as Joanna Cole's Hungry, Hungry Sharks (Random, 1986), will circulate nicely.Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NYCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Ginjer L. Clarke has written many books for Penguin Young Readers, includingFreak Out!andWatch Out!; Title: Sharks! (All Aboard Reading) | [
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18,448 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1-In the first story, Princess Buttercup lives in a magic garden with five other flower princesses. While preparing for a party on the first day of spring, she gets lost in the woods following a butterfly. The friendly monarch picks her up and returns her to the garden in time for the festivities. Youngsters will be drawn to the brightly hued cover and fanciful art. The pace of life in Snail City is nice and slow-until Gail is born. Called "fast poke" by the other snail children, she is considered a bit odd until her quick actions save a baby. Children will enjoy the humor and the cartoon art. Both books have large type, easy vocabulary, and lots of repetition that will help develop and reinforce their reading skills.Maura Bresnahan, Shawsheen School, Andover, MA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.Wendy Cheyette Lewison lives in Larchmont, NY.Jerry Smath lives in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.; Title: Princess Buttercup: A Flower Princess Story (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,449 | 13 | The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written from the perspective of the fictitious "Keesie Johnson"), the latest installment covers the Fauve movement and Matisse's shift from painting to cut-paper collage. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Grade 1-3-A creative way to instill an appreciation of art in children. The text begins with a "hand-printed" letter on lined paper from the teacher, Ms. Brandt, posing three questions to her students for their reports about a famous artist. The rest of the book is related as Keesia Johnson's report. Hartland's color illustrations are captioned with dialogue or other text; examples of Matisse's art are dispersed throughout; and there are photos of the artist and his mother; of the child who "wrote" the report and her sister; of Matisse in his 70s, making paper cutouts; and of stained-glass windows in a church that he designed. A brief biographical sketch is included, and children are also told about Matisse's changes in style, use of bright colors, and skill in various mediums. The last page contains the teacher's "hand-printed" note to Keesia after reading her work. This book could be used in conjunction with Mike Venezia's Henri Matisse (Children's, 1997), Nelly Munthe's Meet Matisse (Little, Brown, 1983; o.p.), and Ernest Lloyd Raboff's Henri Matisse (Lippincott, 1988; o.p.) to introduce the life and works of this renowned French artist.Augusta R. Malvagno, Queens Borough Public Library, NY Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors (Smart About Art) | [
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18,450 | 2 | Amy Wummer lives in Reading, Pennsylvania. She is the illustrator of many books for children, including recent Horrible Harry books, in addition to several from the Night Before series.; Title: My Soccer Mom From Mars (All Aboard Reading) | [
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18,451 | 13 | With a clear, accessible format, the Smart About Art series kicks off with Edgar Degas: Paintings that Dance by Maryann Cocca-Leffler; Claude Monet: Sunshine and Waterlilies by True Kelley; and Vincent van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars by Joan Holub. Each presents factual information about each artist in the style of a school report, interjecting the narrative with the voice of a child writer. In Degas, for instance, "author" Kristin pastes in a photograph of herself in fourth position (aping one of Degas's sketches of a ballet dancer); in Monet, the narrator compares two paintings of the same scene, one by Renoir and one by Monet. Full-color photos and reproductions of the paintings illustrate the text.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Grade 1-3-The conceit behind these biographies is that they were written by elementary-grade students as reports on the painters. Each book opens with a letter from their teacher, "Ms. Brandt," outlining some questions the student might want to think about when preparing the assignment: why did you pick this artist; if you could ask him or her three questions what would they be; and did you learn anything that surprised you? Unfortunately, the end results are cluttered pages and possibly confusing content. While each book includes facts about the subject's life (birth date and place, childhood, work, etc.), it also incorporates little bits of information about the child who is writing the report. For example, Kristin, the "author" of Degas, includes her own self-portrait next to the artist's. The material presented on each subject is strictly biographical; there is no discussion of the artists' technique or place in art history. Colorful pages and lettering highlight the many reproductions, photographs, childlike drawings, and snippets of text. The "Getting to Know the World's Great Artists" series (Children's) presents solid factual information along with reproductions. However, for an engaging introduction to an artist by a fictional character, steer readers to Christina Bj?rk's Linnea in Monet's Garden (R & S, 1987) or Neil Waldman's appealing The Starry Night (Boyds Mills, 2001).Susan Lissim, Dwight School, New York City Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Edgar Degas: Paintings That Dance (Smart About Art) | [
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18,452 | 2 | Karen Katz lives in New York, New York.; Title: Excuse Me: A Little Book of Manners (Lift-the-Flap Book) | [
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18,453 | 11 | Grade 3-5-This accessible, accurate biography provides brief contextual information about the tribes in which Sacagawea lived, from her own people, the Shoshone, to her captors, the Minnetaree and Mandan. Since almost all that is known about her is from the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, this work necessarily focuses on that event and her part in it. Unfortunately, the black-and-white illustrations are dreadful. The cover borders on caricature and does nothing to invite interest or non-prejudicial awareness. The sketches of Lewis and Clark within the text are equally bad. Only those that detail specific material, such as a Shoshone tipi, Mandan lodge, or travois pass muster as good, informative, and text-enhancing. Another problem with the book is the lack of source information. David A. Adler's A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Holiday, 2000) is for younger students and Judith St. George's Sacagawea (Putnam, 1997), for older readers. Wait for a better choice to fill the gap.Nancy Collins-Warner, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Judy Fradin is the co-author, along with her late husband Dennis, of more than 50 non-fiction children's and young adult books on topics ranging from biographies to natural disasters to African American history to the Lewis and Clark expedition. Their IDA B. WELLS: MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT won the Flora Steiglitz Straus award as well as the Golden Kite honor plaque. STOLEN INTO SLAVERY was a Carter Woodson award winner, as was THE POWER OF ONE: DAISY BATES AND THE LITTLE ROCK NINE. WHO WAS SACAGAWEA?was theFradins' first collaboration for the WHO WAS? series. Between 2007 and 2015, Judy was a professor of Children's Literature and Minority Literature at National Louis University.The author of more than 225 children's and young adult non-fiction books, DennisBrindell Fradin was the winner of many awards, including the Flora Steiglitz Straus best non-fiction book of the year, two Carter Woodson awards, a Golden Kite honor plaque, and three Society of Midland Authors Best Book prizes, Dennis prided himself on writing graceful, readableprose for young people. A born storyteller,the decade he spent as a second-grade teacher helped him perfecthis fluid style of writing for children.; Title: Who Was Sacagawea? | [
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18,454 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1-Lucky's boy is starting school and the pup doesn't think he can have fun without him. Then he sees not only lots of boys and girls in the schoolyard but lots of dogs as well. All of the canines seem sad until they go to the park for a day of fun. Lucky is reunited with his owner after class is dismissed and they both go home happy. Large, colorful cartoon illustrations on double-page spreads offer some visual interest but the thin plotline provides little narrative interest. A marginal purchase for collections looking for beginning readers with large type and an easy, repetitive text.Janie Schom- berg, Leal Elementary School, Urbana, IL Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Gail Herman has written many books for Penguin Young Readers, includingFlower GirlandLucky Goes to School.; Title: Lucky Goes to School (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,455 | 18 | Grade 3-5-This is an often funny, always engaging introduction to one of America's most fascinating founding fathers. Franklin is affectionately and respectfully depicted as a man of insatiable intellectual curiosity with a tireless creative and inventive mind who played indispensable roles in the War for Independence and the establishment of the U.S. government. Fradin's anecdotal presentation describes all of the important contributions and inventions the man gave to the world: a national postal system, the first public library, the first volunteer fire department, bifocals, the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, and his revolutionary experiments with electricity. His public service on behalf of the Continental Congress as a diplomat and representative, and his contributions to the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution also receive significant attention. The discussions of Franklin's childhood growing up as one of 17 children and his relationship with his son William who stayed loyal to England during the War for Independence add an interesting personal dimension. Readers are left with an impression of a man of almost unfathomable genius whose many astonishing contributions to American culture, politics, society, and science still profoundly affect us. O'Brien's black-and-white amusing cartoon illustrations are an effective complement to the lighthearted text. A fun, informative introductory biography that will inspire many readers to learn more about this fascinating man.Edward Sullivan, White Pine School, TN Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Gr. 3-5. Few historic figures have led a life as varied and interesting as Benjamin Franklin's. From chasing a twister to helping write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Franklin's career was anything but dry and dusty. But in an attempt to make the fascinating material readable for third-graders, Fradin has sacrificed his usual smooth writing style. Here, the sentences are choppy, abrupt, and frequently interrupted by drawings. The sequence of events wanders considerably, as well, which will make it difficult for younger students to follow along. The cover is comically enticing, and there are plenty of small, lively, black-and-white sketches, including scenes from the text and labeled diagrams of typesetting. A time line is appended, but there are no notes, bibliography, or index. This is only for libraries needing additional material. Susan Dove LempkeCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved; Title: Who Was Ben Franklin? | [
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18,456 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 23: Greenish Eggs and Dinosaurs (The Zack Files) | [
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18,457 | 1 | The fearless leader of Santa's sleigh was a character created by Robert L. May in his book, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, in 1939 as part of a giveaway from Montgomery Ward. Though the text, which gives a nod to Clement C. Moore, is somewhat forced, the book gets a boost from David Wenzel's illustrations of a warm, appealing Santa.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.K-Gr 3-This newly illustrated edition of the well-known story uses May's original, lengthy but satisfying rhymed text, written in 1939. Wenzel's watercolor illustrations are vibrant and richly detailed with a nostalgic, old-fashioned quality. Michael Emberley's watercolor, cartoonlike pen-and-ink drawings in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Applewood, 1994) are amusing but crowd the pages. Of the two books, Wenzel's illustrations are a better fit for the text. While a tad too long for storytime, it's a solid representation of the tale.-M. W.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | [
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18,458 | 0 | Stacey Lamblives in Lawrence, Kansas. Her warm, charming,cheerful illustrations have graced many children's books, includingSilly Sally, Busy Ballet School, Stories from the Bible, and Winter Wonderland.; Title: Stories from the Bible (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,459 | 2 | Joan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of many books for children. She lives in North Carolina, where the famous groundhog Sir Walter Wally helps watch the weather at the Museum of Natural Sciences. You can visit Joan at www.joanholub.com.; Title: Pajama Party | [
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18,460 | 13 | "The first time I saw a reproduction of a painting by Frida Kahlo, I was fascinated. I looked at as many of her pictures as I could... I was hooked. !Viva Frida!"Margaret Frith is the author of numerous childrens books, including several titles in the Who Was? series, such as Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?, Who Was Louis Braille?, Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? and Who Was Woodrow Wilson? She lives in New York City.Tomie dePaola was born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934, to a family of Irish and Italian background. His determination to create books for children led to a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California.His particular way with color, line, detail, and design have earned him many of the most prestigious awards in his field, among them a Caldecott Honor Award forStrega Nona, the Smithsonian Medal, the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for his "singular attainment in children's literature," the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal for his "continued distinguished contribution," and the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion. He was also the 1990 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, and received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for lifetime contribution to children's literature in 2011.DePaola has published almost 200 children's books in15 different countries over the past 30 years.Among his most well-known titles are the Strega Nona series, 26 Fairmount Avenue, and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.DePaola lives in an interesting house in New Hampshire with his four dogs. His studio is in a large renovated 200-year-old barn.; Title: Frida Kahlo: The Artist who Painted Herself (Smart About Art) | [
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18,461 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Me and My Mummy (The Zack Files #26) | [
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18,462 | 2 | Grade 3-5. Zack is a normal 10-year-old boy with a knack for getting into weird situations. In Wanda, he attempts to rid his apartment of a rude eight-year-old poltergeist who communicates by spelling out words with peanut M&Ms. In Litter Box, he plans to adopt a kitten but instead acquires a cantankerous talking cat that claims to be the reincarnation of his great-grandfather. He sees his reflection in the Medicine Cabinet mirror and falls through into a skewed world that its inhabitants consider much "cooler" than ours. An electrical accident occurs at school and Zap!?Zack can hear thoughts, including a bloodthirsty voice expressing an eagerness to kill. The stories have a whacked-out, off-the-wall humor that is reminiscent of the work of Daniel Pinkwater. At the same time, they neatly poke fun at the conventions of popular horror series. Kids will find some of the episodes tremendously funny. Great-Grandpa the cat threatens to "take a leak" on the sofa if Zack doesn't provide him with his preferred food (herring with sour cream!); Wanda and a fellow ghost yank down a bully's pants. The books are short without looking babyish and would appeal to reluctant readers as well as those with a taste for oddball humor.?Elaine E. Knight, Lincoln Elementary Schools, ILCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 01: My Great-grandpa's in the Litter Box (The Zack Files) | [
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18,463 | 0 | Jennifer Dussling lives in Highland Park, NY.; Title: Looking at Rocks (My First Field Guides) | [
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18,464 | 2 | Grade 2-4-The premise is fantastical-a third-grade girl wishes she were someone else, a wind blows up, and she becomes someone or something else. In just 70-odd pages, Katie solves big problems at school, just by her "switcheroos." In Anyone but Me, her tenure as a hamster gives her insight into the class bully (who turns out to be afraid of hamsters), and he is transformed into a nice boy who loves to tell jokes and riddles. In Out to Lunch, she turns into the nasty cafeteria woman, causes a food fight, and comes up with a way to change the quality of the food. This series could be a feminine contender to rival Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" series (Scholastic), but the writing is not of the same caliber and the characters are less well drawn. It's also more purposeful and less fun.Kay Bowes, Concord Pike Library, Wilmington, DECopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Nancy Krulik is the author of many media-related books for young adults, including The New York Times best-seller Leonardo DiCaprio for Archway.; Title: Anyone but Me (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo No. 1) | [
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18,465 | 2 | Ana Ochoa graduated with a degree in graphic design from the National University of Mexico. She has been a professional illustrator for more than 20 years. Her art has been exhibited in Japan, Taiwan, New Delhi, Bratislava, Brazil, Colombia, Bologna, and Mexico. She is the author of The Thanksgiving Play.; Title: The Thanksgiving Play (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,467 | 11 | Edward Heinsis an illustrator whose works include Drawing Dinosaurs and Horses. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.; Title: Horses (Sticker Stories) | [
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18,468 | 0 | This is a tribute to the many camping trips my husband and I took in California. We always seemed to forget something!Natasha Wing lives in Fort Collins, Colorado and is exploring the state and national parks.; Title: The Night Before Summer Vacation | [
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18,469 | 2 | Joyce Milton has written several books for Penguin Young Readers, includingBatsandPocahontas: An American Princess.; Title: Honeybees (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,470 | 2 | Originally introduced in Meet the Barkers, canines Morgan and Moffat return in Tomie dePaola's Boss for a Day. In this addition to the All Aboard Reading series, dePaola's pooches try trading places. In Hide-and-Seek All Week, endless haggling keeps the game from going forward.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.PreSchool-Grade 2-The friendly dog twins are back. Moffie is 10 minutes older than Morgie and likes to control every situation. After Mama talks to her about being too bossy, Moffie decides to let her brother be Boss for a Day. Since he is unaccustomed to taking charge, she shows him how, making every decision about what they should wear, eat, and play. In Hide-and-Seek, the siblings and their friends want to play hide-and-seek during recess. However, it takes them all week long to decide on the rules. Clever details include the bulletin board that changes daily and the reoccurring illustrated recess bell with the hand-lettered "RING!" that visually mimics the sound. The charming illustrations done in cheerful colors and with expressive characters complement both texts. Beginning readers will love these entertaining additions.Debbie Stewart, Grand Rapids Public Library, MI Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Boss for a Day (The Barker Twins) | [
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18,471 | 11 | Catherine Gourley is an award-winning author and editor of books for children and young adults. Many of her nonfiction books explore the media and popular culture, including women issues. At present,she is the project director for Letters About Literature, a reading and writing promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress,and isthe principal curriculum writer for The Story of Movies, a visual literacy educational outreach program of the The Film Foundation, Los Angeles. She lives in Pennsylvania.Who Was Maria Tallchief?Who Was Maria Tallchief?Who Was Maria Tallchief?Maria Tallchief was a ballerina, but she was not just another toe-dancer. She was Americas first prima ballerina. A prima ballerina is the star of the show, the very best dancer on the stage. Maria danced for kings and queens and presidents. She thrilled her audiences with amazing leaps and arabesques. Her performances as a swan queen, a sugar plum fairy, and a magical firebird stand out as some of the most beautiful chapters in American ballet history.She was a Native American, the daughter of a full-blooded Osage. Marias story begins on the Osage reservation in the rolling hills of northeastern Oklahoma. As a child, the beat of the tom-toms excited her. The rhythm of the drums filled the hollow of her bones. The songs of her peoples past woke within her a love of dance and the prima ballerina she would one day become.Chapter 1 The Osage ReservationMaria opened her eyes. She had fallen asleep in the living room, and now her father was carrying her upstairs. She snuggled closer against his warm body and stared at his shiny black hair. His dark eyes smiled down at Maria.Marias first memory was that tender moment, waking to find herself safe in her fathers arms. She was three years old, and her father seemed like a giant to her. Alexander Joseph Tall Chief was six feet two inches. He had broad shoulders and a swaggering confidence that had won the heart of Ruth Porter, a farm girl from Kansas. He was Osage. She was Scottish and Irish. They were married soon after meeting in the small town of Fairfax, Oklahoma.Maria came into the world on a cold winter day, January 24, 1925. Her parents named her Betty Marie, after her two grandmothers, Elizabeth, Eliza, Tall Chief and Marie Porter. Maria had an older brother named Jerry. When Maria was almost two years old, her sister Marjorie was born. The Tall Chief family lived in a ten-room, red-brick house on a hill overlooking the Osage reservation.The Osage hills were a magical place for Maria. The prairie grasses bowed their heads and whispered in the wind. Wildflowers bloomed goldenrod yellow and daisy white. Butterflies and the songs of meadowlarks filled the air. In summer, Maria hunted through the high grasses for arrowheads. The sharp tips of stone were bits of Osage history. Whenever she found one, she said, shivers raced up her spine.The Osage had lived on the plains of North America for many hundreds of years. Before the white settlers came, the prairie was a sea of grasses so tall that an Osage hunter had to stand on the back of his pony to see what lay beyond. The brown clouds and thunder in the distance were herds of buffalo. The Osage called these bearded animals brothers.The white settlers, whom the Osage called Heavy Eyebrows, changed the land and the lives of the native people forever. Heavy Eyebrows plowed under the sweet-smelling grasses to farm the land. They slaughtered and skinned the buffalo, sending the woolly hides back East on the railroads that they had built across the plains. In some places along the iron rails, mounds of buffalo bones rose almost as high as the ancient prairie grasses.The government of the white settlers forced the Osage onto reservations, first in the country Heavy Eyebrows called Kansas, then to a new place called Oklahoma. The Osage were hunters and gatherers. Without the buffalo,they could not hunt. Heavy Eyebrows wanted the Osage to become farmers. Year after year they scratched a living from the baked-red soil, but the crops they grew were not enough. The Osage were a proud people. Now they were starving. They had no choice but to accept the handouts of food and supplies from the white government agents.; Title: Who Was Maria Tallchief? | [
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18,472 | 2 | Grade 2-4-Another installment in a series about a third grader who is periodically transformed into someone else. When a classmate schedules a girls-only slumber party, the boys declare war, and Katie's two best friends are on opposite sides of the gender gap. So, when the "magic wind" turns her into a boy, she tries to reconcile the feuding parties, but her interference only seems to make matters worse. It takes a lost puppy and a determined team effort to bring the friends back together. The fantasy element adds a touch of humor to the familiar boy-girl conflict and the dialogue has an authentic playground ring. The drawings are reminiscent of comic-book art or those 1970s paintings of children with large eyes. Transitional readers will enjoy the humor and appreciate the satisfying triumph of friendship over gender roles.Elaine E. Knight, Lincoln Elementary Schools, ILCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.Nancy Krulik is the author of many media-related books for young adults, including The New York Times best-seller Leonardo DiCaprio for Archway.; Title: Girls Don't Have Cooties #4 (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo) | [
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18,473 | 2 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 24: My Grandma, Major League Slugger (The Zack Files) | [
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18,474 | 18 | Kate Jerome is an award-winning children's book author and a lifelong advocate of science literacy. She has recently completed a Fellowship at Stanford University and, in addition to writing new children's books, she is now developing innovative programming in virtual reality.; Title: Who Was Amelia Earhart? | [
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18,475 | 11 | True Kelley is the author-illustrator ofWho Was Pablo Picasso?and the author ofWho Is Dolly Parton?,Who Was Abigail Adams?, andWho Was Roald Dahl?; Title: Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules (Smart About Art) | [
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18,476 | 2 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 27: My Teacher Ate My Homework (The Zack Files) | [
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18,477 | 0 | Gr. 1. New readers will get a kick out of this simple yet amusing entry in the All Aboard Reading series, which has a story that is certain to be readily identifiable to anyone who owns a cat. Cat scratches the table, and he scratches the chair. The upset family's refrain is always the same: "Bad, bad cat." And so it goes as the cat eats the plants, tears the pillows, steals the food. Kelley's watercolor art shows some classic scenes--the cat hiding under the table with his nose buried in a cup cake as spilled milk drips on the floor. One day Cat escapes out the door, and when he doesn't reappear for dinner, the family searches for him: "Kitty! Darling! Sweetie!" They love him, they miss him, and when he comes back it doesn't matter how bad he is--even with his paw in the fish bowl. Short, simple sentences are packed with emotion; the pictures are full of fun. Ilene CooperCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedClaire Masurel is the author of numerous lift-the-flap books, including Where's Santa? (Puffin). She lives in France.; Title: That Bad, Bad Cat! (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,478 | 13 | Nina, Nina, and the Copycat BallerinaThere is a new Nina in Nina's dance class. And there is a problem. The new Nina is nice. But she is a copycat! What is Nina 1 going to do? You can read this funny story all by yourself to find out!Jane O'Connor lives in New York City.; Title: Nina, Nina and the Copycat Ballerina (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,479 | 0 | "Here's a young hero who could well be Harry Potter's little brother."- Mary Pope OsborneKate McMullan is the award-winning author of more than seventy-five books for children. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.; Title: Class Trip to the Cave of Doom #3 (Dragon Slayers' Academy) | [
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18,480 | 2 | Bonnie Bader has written several Penguin Young Readers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.; Title: Family Reunion (formerly titled Graphs) (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,481 | 0 | Bonnie Bader has written several Penguin Young Readers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.; Title: 100 Monsters in My School (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,482 | 0 | Grade 1-3-A bare-bones introduction to the Shoshone guide. Milton focuses on her time spent helping Lewis and Clark, her marriage to Charbonneau, and the birth of her son, Pomp. Short sentences and pronunciation make the book accessible to emerging readers. Facts tend to be appropriately simple for the grade and reading levels. The large type is positioned on a white background and does not interfere with the full-color drawings. The illustrations lack pizzazz yet fit in well with the text. Several simple maps clue readers in to where the story is taking place. David Adler's A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Holiday, 2000) goes into more detail but the text is more difficult. Both titles would be useful, especially for Native American units.Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Joyce Milton has written several Penguin Young Readers, including Pocahontas: An American Princess and Bats.; Title: Sacajawea: Her True Story (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) | [
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18,483 | 0 | Wendy Cheyette Lewison lives in Larchmont, NY.; Title: F Is for Flag (Reading Railroad) | [
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18,487 | 2 | Grade 2-4-Zack's science-fair partner is the school's worst liar. No matter what yarn anyone tells, Andrew has to top it-in spades. Suddenly, in the midst of one of his whoppers, Zack notices that his friend's pants seem to be getting tighter- and tighter- and r-r-rip! Like Pinocchio, Andrew is showing physical reactions to fibbing. However, instead of his nose, it's his hind end that is growing. Before long, the boys' project-a bicycle-powered electrical generator-is in jeopardy. Andrew's seat can't fit on it! Zack must get his friend back to normal-and convince him to stick to the facts in the future. Amusing cartoon drawings illustrate Andrew's posterior problem without slipping over into gross details. Adults may find the preoccupation with backsides just a tad distasteful, but fans of the series expect a degree of lighthearted irreverence. The off-the-wall humor and underlying emphasis on honesty will appeal to transitional and reluctant readers.Elaine E. Knight, Lincoln Elementary Schools, ILCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Zack Files 28: Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow (The Zack Files) | [
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18,490 | 0 | Dan Greenburg has known success as a humorist, a novelist, a journalist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. Now he has turned his considerable talent to writing an original new series of books for a younger audience. Inspired by his own son Zack, for whom the hero of his new series, The Zack Files, is named, Greenburg has combined his love of humor, his interest in things paranormal, and his talent for writing to create books that kids like Zack will want to read.With 18 books to his credit, Dan Greenburg's work has been translated into 19 languages and is available in 22 countries. His best-selling titles for adults include How to Be a Jewish Mother, How to Make Yourself Miserable, Scoring, Love Kills, How to Avoid Love and Marriage and Exes. His previous books for children include Young Santa, The Bed Who Ran Away From Home, Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant.His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Ms., Time, Newsweek, Life, New York magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and have been reprinted in 33 anthologies of humor and satire in the United States and England.Born and raised in Chicago, Dan Greenburg received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois, and his M.A. from UCLA. He is the father of Zack, a teenage son, who played the title role in the motion picture, LORENZO'S OIL, and served as the inspiration for The Zack Files. Mr. Greenburg lives in Westchester County, New York.; Title: Trapped in the Museum of Unnatural History (The Zack Files #25) | [
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18,491 | 14 | I still write stories in my head but now many of them become books. Though a real book is rarely as brilliant as an imaginary one, there is magic in being able to hold your newly-published book in your hands -- a tangible, almost living thing. The best part comes when a child writes, as one little girl did, "I loved your book because it made me happy".I was not an exceptional student, probably because I was too busy writing great books in my head. But when I was in high school, my chemistry teacher told me he wasn't worried about my grades, because he knew that one day he would have my books on his shelf. I never forgot his prophecy or his faith in me, and twenty five-years later, when Houghton Mifflin published my first book, Noelle of the Nutcracker (illustrated by Jan Brett), I sent a copy to Mr. Welsh and asked him to put on his shelf. And he did.I like to write different kinds of stories -- tall tales, picture books, young readers, and stories in rhyme (many of the rhymes come to me in dreams, but they need lots of wakeful editing). I love talking to children at schools and sharing my journey to becoming a writer....I even tell them about how I submitted one book 135 times before it was accepted (their mouths drop open!).I live in Pennsylvania with my husband and our daughter. When I get stuck with my writing, my daughter advises me to put on my thinking mask.; Title: All About Christmas (Jewel Sticker Stories) | [
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18,493 | 1 | Jonathan London is the creator ofmore than 20 books about the lovable and enduringly popular character Froggy. He is also a poet and a novelist. Heburst on the children's book scene in 1992 with the publication of three picture books. Since then he has publishedover 100picture books, including the Froggyseries and the young adult novelWhere's Home? Jonathan London started writing poetry in his late teens. Although he received a Masters Degree in Social Sciences and never formally studied literature or creative writing, he began to consider himself a "writer" about the time he graduated from college. After college, he became a dancer in a modern dance company and worked at numerous low-paying jobs as a laborer or counselor. However, during this 20-year period, London continued to write. He wrote poems and short stories for adults, earning next to nothing despite being published in many literary magazines. "It wasn't until I had kids of my own that I became a writer for children," he explains. "It all started with telling them stories when they were very young. I wrote down one of these stories, and it becameThe Owl Who Became the Moon, my first picture book sale (though it was my fourth to appear in print). Now I am finally making a living as a writer. A dream come true!" Born a "Navy brat" in Brooklyn, New York,London was raised on naval stations throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Today he lives with his wife, Maureen, and their two sons, Aaron and Sean, in rural Northern California, where they like to backpack in the summer, play in the snow in winter, and dance all year around.Frank Remkiewiczis an award-winning illustrator and author of more than 100 childrens books, including the popular Froggy series by Jonathan London. Prior to his career in publishing, he created art for posters and greeting cards. Remkiewicz lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife, Sylvia Nissley. To learn more, visit remkiewicz.com.; Title: Froggy Bakes a Cake | [
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18,494 | 2 | Bonnie Bader has written several Penguin Young Readers, including 100 Monsters in my School and Graphs.; Title: Benny the Big Shot Goes to Camp (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) | [
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18,495 | 2 | Megan E. Bryanthas written many books for children, including several Strawberry Shortcake titles, as well as the Penguin Young ReaderShape Spotters. She graduated fromNew York University with a degree in Dramatic Literature, and worked as a childrens book editor for five years. She lives inWinston-Salem, North Carolina, with her family.Sami Sweeten is an author and illustrator of books for young readers. Her illustration credits include several Herbie Jones books by Suzy Kline and Shape Spotters by Megan Bryant.; Title: Shape Spotters (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,496 | 0 | Jayne Harvey is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Jayne Harvey include Busy Bugs: A Book About Patterns, Cat Show, and Great Uncle Dracula and the Dirty Rat.Bernard Adnet illustrates childrens books, textbooks, packaging, game boards, and just about everything else under the sun. Bernard grew up in a large family in the French Alps. He met his wife while studying in Paris.; Title: Busy Bugs: A Book About Patterns (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,497 | 0 | Emily Neye is a childrens book author and a landscape designer. She studied English at Amherst College and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Emily loves learning about the natural world and sharing her passion with others, through both her writing and her work on urban gardens and parks. Emily lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two daughters.; Title: Water (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) | [
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18,498 | 2 | A former educator, Gare Thompson has written bestselling classroom programs as well as numerous children's books. His specialty is historical fiction. Thompson lives in Massachusetts.; Title: Who Was Helen Keller? | [
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18,499 | 18 | Perfect for kids who are beyond easy-to-read books but not quite ready for really long biographiesThe author of more than 225 children's and young adult non-fiction books, DennisBrindell Fradinwas the winner of many awards, including the Flora Steiglitz Straus best non-fiction book of the year, two Carter Woodson awards, a Golden Kite honor plaque, and three Society of Midland Authors Best Book prizes, Dennis prided himself on writing graceful, readableprose for young people. A born storyteller,the decade he spent as a second-grade teacher helped him perfecthis fluid style of writing for children.; Title: Who Was Thomas Jefferson? | [
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